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Newspaper
Elizabeth Daily Journal
Location
Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
2
A jumble of editorial musings and social notes from Elizabeth New Jersey reflects on the end of 1908. It discusses public figures, disasters in Italy, storms of politics, and cautionary glimpses of a hopeful, reorganizing year ahead with praise for civic progress and charity efforts.
The Committee on Evening Schools concludes night instruction should continue as a farsighted, beneficial move. Attendance reached 1,600 this year, with strong ongoing interest. A plan for evening lectures for workingmen is recommended, aligning with broader educational efforts and community engagement.
Pith of Opinion argues Senator Clarry V. Osborne of Farex seeks a local option bill to let each locality decide Sunday sales after 1 PM, with state referendum to set local policy. The piece critiques the approach as chaotic and argues against shifting power from the state to towns, noting police and saloon dynamics and questioning the motive and potential outcomes.
The text discusses influencing saloonkeepers to refuse service to uniformed patrolmen and notes a past pattern where officers in uniform were regularly served. It suggests an official order aimed at altering this practice and contemplates potential future outcomes.
A familiar Tallahassee figure and Civil War veteran wearing a gray uniform for over forty years died at home in Wrentham Massachusetts after a long illness. Rev Willian Lawton Brown died aged Wh years after being Brown University oldest graduate for two months and a long-time participant in Commencement exercises since 1936.
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